[Sigia-l] Email versus RSS

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Zbigniew Lukasiak:

> Of course there are extensions - in many mail readers you can use killfiles to
> filter out particular authors, and probably some RSS aggregators let the user
> aggregate by topic too, but these are extensions - not the primary modus
> operandi.

On Mac OS X, where the notion of Smart Search/Filters/Rules/Folders (first
popularized by iTunes and later by the Finder) has been around for years.
Most Mac RSS readers have provided ways of auto slicing and dicing incoming
messages for a long time via Smart Feeds.

> - mailing lists are real time (less than IM, but still), RSS is based on
> polling

What's the difference here? Both your email and RSS reader periodically
poll. You can make the delta small, but that doesn't quite make it "real
time".

> When we discover an interesting author it would be nice to know where else we
> can find his writings.

Meet coComment:

<http://www.cocomment.com/>

Example:

"My Remarks Elsewhere" lower right at

<http://www.subtraction.com/>

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Ziya

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